Re: Why is the DVD image so large?

From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke_at_blastwave.org>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:21:38 UTC 
On 11/1/25 11:46, Graham Perrin wrote:
> On 01/11/2025 14:06, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> 
>> … the dvd1 image seems a tad large for an actual DVD media. I think
>> this has been the case for a very long time now.  …
> 
> 
>> From <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=257347#c10>:
> 
>> … dvd1 image is also almost at its limit, which is 4.7GB for single 
>> layer DVD (FreeBSD 14 dvd1 is 4541104128 bytes=4.54 GB).
> 
> 
> 5150257152 does seem to exceed this.
> 

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  Graham Perrin 2025-11-01 15:55:05 UTC

<https://www.freebsd.org/where/#choose-image> describes DVD format.

Bug 284666 (too large) was closed as a duplicate of bug 253483 (too 
large for single DVD) which was also closed (works as intended).
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So?  Works as intended. A DVD image that can never be on a DVD.

OKay then.

Today seemed like a good day to try an install onto a chunk of hardware
and actually create an installation DVD. I went with the much smaller
disk1.iso image and that works just fine. Maybe the oversized DVD file
has no reason to exist.


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Dennis Clarke
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